#Trust lost!
Yesterday's billions lost in US #stock values are only the smallest impact of #Trump politics.
The #world has learned, that the #USA are no reliable partner anymore.
Decades of #investments in #diplomacy are wrecked.
So let's think about our dependencies..
Draft law does not specify sectors for planned German infrastructure fund
https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/draft-law-does-not-specify-sectors-planned-german-infrastructure-fund #infrastructure #investments #Germany #coalition #elections
Great !
There are sure some better #Investments on the #Road out there. 
#Money #Investments #StockMarket
If you're invested in the #SP500, you should consider moving some of your $ into #SPYI which maintains a portfolio equivalent to the S&P500 but sells covered calls & other options against its positions for an annual yield of about 12%.
It's too little early to buy heavily into SPYI now because I see the S&P500 heading lower over the year but $ cost averaging down would be one way to buy it w/o taking on too much negative market risk.
FWIW, I'm into SPYI at an average of 49 and won't buy more until it drops back to or below that level which would be only be about a 4% drop from where it is now & such a drop is certainly possible if #Stagflation continues to depress the market & continue to put pressure on the Fed to hold the line on (or perhaps even raise) interest rates.
Before the financial services sector try to dismember the cash ISA, perhaps they might first think about the £67bn in under-performing 'dog' funds; managed funds (taking big fat fees) but which have under-performed stock indexes in the last three years....
But of course in a sector patterned by big payments for under (no) performance, all they're interested is in getting rid of a competing product for savers so they can capture more fees!
Leave cash ISAs alone!
#investments #savings
h/t FT
Macron signals investments of 109 billion euros in French AI by private sector https://www.byteseu.com/730326/ #ArtificialIntelligence #ElyseePalace #EmmanuelMacron #euros #France #investments
Subject: Financial advisors (sorry in advance to anyone who is one!)
It's only now I look back on some of the episodes from my youth that I now see how #autistic they were. 
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#Skwawkbox | #OxfordCollege referred to regulator over £1m+ #investments in illegal Israel settlements
Norinchukin Bank, the Japanese lender that got stung by rising global interest rates, expects its annual loss to exceed a previous $9.7 billion projection as it steps up the disposal of unprofitable foreign bonds. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/11/19/economy/norinchukin-posts-billion-loss/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #norinchukin #banks #investments #us #donaldtrump #bonds
Nintendo’s shares rose after a senior executive with Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund said it’s considering increasing its stakes in Japanese game companies. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/10/07/companies/nintendo-shares-saudi-fund/ #business #companies #saudiarabia #investments #stocks #nintendo #videogames
#Solar #energy is the
️ most widely available energy resource on Earth,
and its economic attractiveness is improving fast in a cycle of #increasing #investments.
Here we use data-driven conditional technology and economic forecasting modelling to establish which zero carbon power sources could become dominant worldwide.
We find that, due to technological trajectories set in motion by past policy,
a global #irreversible solar #tipping #point may have passed where solar energy gradually comes to #dominate global #electricity #markets,
without any further climate policies.
Uncertainties arise, however, over #grid #stability in a renewables-dominated power system,
the availability of #sufficient #finance in underdeveloped economies,
the capacity of #supply #chains and #political #resistance from regions that lose employment.
Policies resolving these barriers may be more effective than price instruments to accelerate the transition to clean energy
#Teachers — who know #TimWalz or know of him — say his #education #background will be an #asset in the #WhiteHouse.
As #Minnesota #governor, Walz has made #historic #investments in #PublicEducation, a #record his supporters say was shaped by his time in the #classroom.
https://19thnews.org/2024/08/teacher-educator-support-tim-walz/
What are the recent #OpenScience policy developments around the world, and how may they affect #investments into #OpenInfrastructure? 
Find out more in our 2024 open science policy survey! https://investinopen.org/announcing-the-2024-survey-of-recent-open-science-policy-developments/
#InsuranceLobbyists block #federal crackdown on costly [good] #retirement advice
The #FinancialServicesIndustry has blocked the #Biden admin from requiring #brokers to put #retirees’ needs first — above lucrative #commissions.
To protect older Americans’ #LifeSavings, #POTUS #JoeBiden pledged in Oct to crack down on #financial advisers who recommend #investments just because they pay higher commissions. Then the insurance industry got to work.
#law
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/08/11/insurance-lobbyists-block-fiduciary-rule/
“In his first 4 years as President, Joe #Biden signed into #law major #investments in the U.S. #economy, including in #infrastructure, domestic #manufacturing, & #climate. Together, these investments are likely to increase #productivity & economic #growth while lowering long-term inflationary pressures & facilitating the #CleanEnergy transition.”
It’s Always Sunny For #CleanEnergy https://www.levernews.com/you-love-to-see-it-its-always-sunny-for-clean-energy/ “You know things are bad for fossil fuels when even capitalism is turning on you. #Investments in clean energy will almost double that of fossil fuels this year, according to a new report from the #InternationalEnergyAgency, an intergovernmental association of 31 countries originally founded to help regulate the global oil supply. Funding for clean energy first eclipsed fossil fuels in 2016, and the gap has been widening every year”
#WomensRights Are #Essential to #Democracy. Why Do #Philanthropists Treat #Investments in #Women as a #SpecialInterest?
#Divorcing #genderjustice from #democracy is #inconsistent, #irrational and unnecessarily #expensive. To separate them is to delay #success and #pay for it many times over.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #WomensRights #Business #Investment #Philanthropy #Representation #Culture
«On November 16, the Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at #Columbia University SIPA convened a private workshop to discuss the applicability of the current ESG (environmental, social, and corporate governance) investing framework on national oil companies (NOCs)»
How the ESG Investing Framework Applies to National Oil Companies: Workshop Report - Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA | CGEP
https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/publications/how-esg-investing-framework-applies-national-oil-companies-workshop-report
A Philippine freight railway project may be built with the support of the U.S. and Japan, an official in charge of it said, as Manila seeks alternative financing deals after dropping funding talks with China. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/04/20/philippines-rail-project-us-japan-china/ #business #philippines #philippinesjapanrelations #us #rail #china #investments
